for those in the want some thing now crowd go to the link posted if the commit is up to date then your not missing much(not saying the work isn't great but its barebones)
with little copy paste you can have it open-source(no as simple as mention but if you cant code then this is a little to alpha for you )
looks like there is a custom gstreamer(patch type problems with updates and the like)though but you will like the video and audio encoding options
you don't have to be a master programer to figure out what the program is doing so i would suggest even if your not brave enough to install it you atleast check it out
i skimmed through it and haven't had a chance to play with it yet(phone or emulator wise) so copy the code at your own risk and make sure to report bugs if you are adventurous enough to try it
Oh and let all the authors know their doing a great job

<zsoc> Well right now it's pretty bare bones. I'm implementing (er, reimplementing) functions one at a time and working kinks out. There's a severe lack of... information in the app, makes it a little annoying to use.
<zsoc> I could have an alpha ready.. tomorrow probably. Maybe rod'll throw it in the testing feed
<zsoc> But I can't "release" even a crappy version till i get stdout/err threaded properly.
<zsoc> so probably the first week of december when I have a native C service going :P

...etc... (you can see it all by typing 'strings /usr/bin/mediaserver | more)

-mark

Yeah I did notice this. If I'm not mistaken MediaServer is a java service. This capture://video (or audio_video) is a pretty common java api for cell phones. It would still have to interact with the camd native C service somehow to actually support the video (unless this service already supported it prior). I don't claim to be a webos expert. It's not that I don't think it's worth the time to research, but if stuff is stuck up in binaries, there's a good chance they're pretty unusable (there's a reason undocumented api's are undocumented). Or at least unusable in the sense that they are difficult to debug.

Hey guys just installed the recorder and amazing work! Here's something I noticed you may or may not already know about it:
when i press start recording the first one doesn't show in the video list this is everytime I run the app not just at first run
The audio is a little low also playing on the pre i could barely hear the sound not sure if this is something that can be easily fixed with the tools you have but hey you've done wonders for us pre users and it can only get better!